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Re:Why Use Make by quotemstr on Sunday February 24, 2013 @07:33PM (#5276668)
Say you have a city with two skyscrapers on opposite sides of town, one 49 stories high and the other 51 stories high. When you're at the top of the 49-story building, you're at a local maximum of height and close to the global maximum, but you're not exactly a short gradient-ascent jaunt away from the global maximum.
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Re:Why Use Make by philwelch on Sunday February 24, 2013 @08:19PM (#5276780)
Sure, but how much work are you going to put in to go up two floors? Local optimum + close to a global optimum means there's not much cost benefit in changing.
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Re:Why Use Make by joeyo on Sunday February 24, 2013 @08:56PM (#5276872)
Exactly. That's what Make is still used.
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